@article{Moreira2004,
title={Efficient system-wide coordination in noisy environments},
author={Moreira AA, 
Mathur A, 
Diermeier D, 
Amaral LAN},
abstract={Many natural and social systems display global organization and coordination without centralized control. The origin of this global coordination is a topic of great current interest. Here we investigate a density-classification task as a model system for coordination and information processing in decentralized systems. We show that sophisticated strategies, selected under idealized conditions, are not robust to environmental changes. We also demonstrate that a simple heuristic is able to successfully complete the classification task under a broad range of environmental conditions. Our findings hint at the possibility that complex networks and ecologically efficient rules coevolve over time.},
journal={Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A.},
volume={101},
doi={10.1073/pnas.0400672101},
year={2004},
month={AUG},
day={17},
pages={12085--12090},
}